Judaism Quotes - Page 15

• Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Evil, Mad

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

  Timothy Keller

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

  Ed Buckner

  Christian, Sacrifice, Law

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• Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

  Martin Amis

  Islam, Christianity, Medieval

  "The age of horrorism (part three)" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2006.

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• Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religion, Christianity

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

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• What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.

  Jacob Needleman

  Light, People, Taoism

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• Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.

  Ed Buckner

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Discovery, Blood

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• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

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• Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Education, Animal

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

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• Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Stories, Ifs

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• Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

  H. John Poole

  Roots, Islam, Three

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• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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• If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boy survives without any Jewish education, with no synagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is in his soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue or a Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. It has been there from the beginning and there is no Jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, School, Boys

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• We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Israel, Trying

  Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam,
  they deny somehow that God has a feminine face.
  However, if you go to the holy texts,
  you see there is this feminine presence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Islam, Faces, Christianity

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• The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.

  Otto Weininger

  Race, Two, Choices

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• Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Literature, Babe

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Mother, Simple

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• Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

  James Cagney

  Children, Kids, People

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• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

  Gore Vidal

  Educational, Race, People

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

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• The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

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• Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

  Bernard Lewis

  Islamic, Criticism, World

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